Ovid Quotes, Promise Quotes

Anyone can be rich in promises.

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We remain a young nation, but in the words of Scripture, the time has come to set aside childish things. The time has come to reaffirm our enduring spirit; to choose our better history; to carry forward that precious gift, that noble idea, passed on from generation to generation: the God-given promise that all are equal, all are free, and all deserve a chance to pursue their full measure of happiness.

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There is something so ludicrous in promises of good or threats of evil a great way off as to render the whole subject with which they are connected easily turned into ridicule.

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In every life, no matter how full or empty ones purse, there is tragedy. It is the one promise life always fulfills. Thus, happiness is a gift, and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes, and to add to other peoples store of it.

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Lightly given promises must meet with little trust.

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Our government shouldn't make promises we cannot keep, but we must keep the promises we've already made.

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Joseph is the wearisomest and self-righteous Pharisee who ever ransacked the Bible to rake the promises to himself and fling the curses on his neighbor.

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Enemies' promises were made to be broken.

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All promise outruns performance.

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It is the purpose that makes strong the vow; But vows to every purpose must not hold.

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That virtue therefore which is but a youngling in the contemplation of evil, and knows not the utmost that vice promises to her followers, and rejects it, is but a blank virtue, not a pure; her whiteness is but an excremental whiteness.

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Managers that always promise to 'make the numbers' will at some point be tempted to make up the numbers.

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All but a few of the organizations do not specifically promise to deliver superior investment performance although it is perhaps not unreasonable for the public to draw such an inference from their advertised emphasis on professional management.

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A clean confession combined with a promise never to commit the sin again, when offered before one who has the right to receive it, is the purest type of repentance.

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Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Promise Quotes , Religion Quotes

Everything a politician promises at election time has to be paid for either by higher taxation or by borrowing.

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Uncorseted, her friendly bust Gives promise of pneumatic bliss.

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Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Giving Quotes , Promise Quotes

The earth does not argue, Is not pathetic, has no arrangements, Does not scream, haste, persuade, threaten, promise, Makes no discriminations, has no conceivable failures, Closes nothing, refuses nothing, shuts none out.

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Tags : Walt Whitman Quotes , Promise Quotes , Environmental Quotes

A lobster bisque ought to be the crowning glory of the potager. And this one was excellent. Silky as a gigolo's compliment and fishy as a chancellor's promise.

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Tags : A. A. Gill Quotes , Promise Quotes , Lobster Quotes

Tis not the many oaths that make the truth; But the plain single vow, that is vow'd true.

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Promise Quotes , Vow Quotes

I promise you I will listen to what has been said here, even though I wasn't here.

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